{"id":384881,"date":"2020-11-19T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T03:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=384881"},"modified":"2020-11-19T09:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T03:35:53","slug":"airlines-scramble-to-prepare-for-ultra-cold-covid-19-vaccine-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-scramble-to-prepare-for-ultra-cold-covid-19-vaccine-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines scramble to prepare for ultra-cold COVID-19 vaccine distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines are scrambling to prepare ultra-cold shipping and storage facilities to transport COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna, whose doses, which require deep freezing, are likely to be among the first to be distributed. <\/p>\n<p>A recent survey by an air cargo association and a drug shippers&#8217; group found only 15% of industry participants felt ready to transport goods near the minus 70 degrees Celsius (-94\u00b0F) required by the Pfizer Inc vaccine, while around 60% could meet Moderna Inc&#8217;s less stringent -20\u00b0C requirement. <\/p>\n<p>Typically, airlines use containers with cooling materials such as dry ice to transport pharmaceutical products, but some don&#8217;t have temperature controls, making products susceptible to unforeseen events such as flight delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines are scrambling to prepare ultra-cold shipping and storage facilities to transport COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna, whose doses, which require deep freezing, are likely to be among the first to be distributed. A recent survey by an air cargo association and a drug shippers&#8217; group found only 15% of industry participants felt ready to transport goods near the minus 70 degrees Celsius (-94\u00b0F) required by the Pfizer Inc vaccine, while around 60% could meet Moderna Inc&#8217;s less stringent -20\u00b0C requirement. Typically, airlines use containers with cooling materials such as dry ice to transport pharmaceutical products, but some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}